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HINGE AND TIP FOR TWIN WIRE STAYS FOR BUSTLES.

- No. 373,687. Patented Novl 22, 1887.-

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GEORGE O. SCHNELLER, OF ANSONIA, CONNECTICUT.

HINGE AND TlP FOR TWlN-WiRE STAYS FOR BUSTLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No\ 373,687, dated November 22,1887.

Application filed September 12, 1881. Serial No. 240.434.

To aZZ whom it nut-y concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE O. SCHNELLER, of Ansonia, in the county of New Haven and State of Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Hinges and Tips for Twin \Vire; and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection with accompanying drawings and the letters of'reference marked thereon, to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and represent, in

Figure 1, a side view of the twin wire; Fig. 2, an end view ofthe same; Fig. 3, the blank as cut to form the clasp, tips, and hinge-ear in a single piece; Fig. 4, a perspective view of the clasp with the laps turned up as ready To receive the wire; Fig. 5, a side view of the hinge with the wire set therein preparatory to closing the tips upon the wire; Fig 6, a 1ongitudinal central section illustrating the hinge and tips as fully secured to the wire; Fig. 7, the application ofthe hinge twin wire; Fig. 8, a perspective view of the tip portion as made detached from the clasp portion.

This invention relates to a device to be ap plied to the end of twin wire, whereby the end maybe protected, and provided with a hinge, by which it may be attached to other wires or points where the hinge is desirable.

The article twin wire, as known in the market,is used for the manufacture of bllSlIlBS, hoopskirts, and like purposes; and it consists of two parallel wires inclosed within a cover ing, but distant from each other, so as to leave a portion of the covering between the wires, and which, being starehed or sized, lies hat and supports the two wires in their proper position distant from each other, making practically a broad wire, hoop, or spring, as the case may he.

"In the manufacture of many bustles and hoopskirts the hoops or springs are of U shape or semicircular, the two ends of the spring or hoop being hinged to a corresponding part, so that the hoop or spring may be turned out of its normal plane or returned thereto, as occasion may require. This is a common construction in bllStlQS, where the body portion of the bustle consists of an upright with bows of semicircular shape extending therefrom, and which it is desirable shall be made collapsible. This is done by hinging (X0 moth-1,)

the bows to the uprights. It is to this kind of binge that my invention particularly relates. It is also desirable, if not necessary, to cover the ends of the springs, so as to prevent the wires from forcing themselves outward th rough the end of the covering.

In the illustration, Figs. 1 and 2 the twin wire.

a a represent the two wires inclosed, the covering forming a web, 12, between the two to sustain them in theirproper relation to each other. The hinge-clasp to secure it and tip to protect the ends of the wire are best made in a single piece, as indicated in Fig. 3.

The blank is made from sheet metal of a length about twice the width of the twin wire to which the hinge is to be applied. The width of the blank is immaterial, it only being necessary that it shall be sufficient to practically iuclose the end portion of the twin wire to which the hinge is to be attached.

A represents the central portion of this blank, and the two ends represent what may be called the flaps B B. The central portion is extended on one side to form an ear, C, of substantially semicircular shape, with a central opening, D, through it. On the same side of the blank A as theear C the flap portions are extended to form tips (2, and upon the side of the blank opposite the ear, and centrally, slight projections ofaspurlikecharacter, e, are formed. The flap portions 13 B are turned up at each side, as seen in Fig. 4, distant from each other corresponding to the width of the twin wire. The tips (1 are turned inward from the ends of the flaps, and the spurs e are also turned in the same direction, as indicated in Fig. 4. This completes the hinge with the clasp and tips as a single piece. It is applied to the twin wire, as indicated in Fig. 5, the wire lying between the two flaps, its end being in line with the respective tips (1 cl, as seen in Fig. 5. Then the two flaps B B are closed down upon the wire,-as seen in Fig. The spurs e 6 enter the web and make engagement between the clasp and the wire, and the tips (I (1 close over the ends of the respective wires, as indicated in Fig. 6, so that the spurs e engaging the web and the tips standing against the ends of the wires, the ear 0 projecting beyond the end of the wire, not only secures the ear 0 to rep resen t b Upon the opposite edge of this plate a central the wire, but the tips d d prevent the wires from slipping through the ends.

The hinge-joint is made as represented in Fig. 7.

E represents the wire or bow to which the ear 0 is secured.

F represents the body-piece of a bustle. The ear 0 is laid upon the body-piece F, which is punched corresponding to the hole in the ear 0, and through the ear and through the bodypiece an eyelet is introduced and closed thereon, so as to form the pivot upon which the hinge may turn.

If preferred, the clasp may be punched, as indicated in broken lines, Fig. 3, and an eyelet introduced through the clasp and through the web between the wires asa means for securing the parts together. In this case the spurs a may be omitted.

Instead of making the tips at as a part of the clasp, they may be made on a separate plate of metal, (see Fig. 8, G representing such plate of metal,) and this plate of metal corresponds in width to the width of the twin wire, and the tips d cl correspond tothe ends ofthe two wires.

spur or tongue,f, may be formed, as seen in Fig.8. This plate is laid upon the side of the wire opposite that to which the clasp is applied, the tips d (Z setting close against the ends of the two wires. Then the flapsB B are closed down upon the plate G. In addition to this, an eyelet may be introduced through the clasp, as before described, and through the! plate G. Under this modification it will be 5 observed that the tips d d are to be omitted from the'clasp proper, as indicated in broken lines, Fig. 3. I, however, prefer to construct the clasp with the hinge-ear, the tips, and the spurs in a single piece.

This combined hinge and tip are made and sold as articles of manufacture independent of the wires, to be applied by consumers.

I claiml. The herein-described hingefor twin wire, 5 consisting ofa clasp, A, having a projecting ear,C,upon one side, with a hole, D, through it, the said ear extended at each side to form flaps B B, the. said flaps extended upon the same side as the ear to form t'ipsd d, and with 50 one or more central spurs upon the side of the clasp opposite the said ear, substantially as described, the said clasp being adapted to be closed upon the end of twin wire and so as to leave the ear G projecting therefrom.

2. A hinge for twin-wire, consisting of a clasp, A, having an ear, 0, projecting from one side, the said ear extended at each side to form flaps B B, and provided with tips d d, corresponding in length to substantially the 60 thickness of the wires, and to close over the ends of the two wires, and the said clasp adapted to be attached to the wires, substantially as described.

GEORGE O. SGHNELLER. Witnesses:

E. G. DREW,

ALTON T. TERRELL. 

